Hacker News: questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=questinthrowHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:53:32 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds"]]>Its odd how I viewed academia as a beautiful place where people were judged by merit not by politics. Then I joined it and realized its even more cutthroat than corporate politics, I guess you cant escape human fallibility no matter the system since all systems are reflections of human nature.

]]>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:39:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44797283questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44797283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44797283<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"]]>The elephant in the room is that America doesnt want Russia to lose. Russia is basically America's dog, used to scare European countries in spending either 2% or soon maybe 5% of their GDP to america in order to be "protected". It's a racket and both the USA and Russia are colluding.

]]>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:48:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43218754questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43218754https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43218754<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona"]]>Russia thought the same when it thought it could hide behind its nukes. Alas.

]]>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:55:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42709909questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42709909https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42709909<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war"]]>Russia also bombs people though.

]]>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 09:15:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514075questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514075https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514075<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "ChatGPT Pro"]]>Question, what stops openai from downgrading existing models so that you're pushed up the subscription tiers to ever more expensive models? I'd imagine they're currently losing a ton of money supplying everyone with decent models with a ton of compute behind them because they want us to become addicted to using them right? The fact that classic free web searching is becoming diluted by low quality AI content will make us rely on these LLMs almost exclusively in a few years or so. Am I seeing this wrong?

]]>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:09:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42332173questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42332173https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42332173<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing"]]>Assuming I'm a politician, couldn't I use those imported people to stir up trouble so I can get enough political support to change legislation so it fits me like in the article here? More surveillance and control isn't a bad thing if you're at the top. Furthermore these imported people all have very simple "triggers" to make them do violent stuff so its very easy to use them towards your own ends.

]]>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 11:37:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729656questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729656https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729656<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing"]]>Well the entire surveillance system we've slaved over to build during the ZIRP boom is ready to roll, AI was the final piece for cheap summarization of potential threats. Now the laws have to be drafted gently to boil the frog.

]]>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:55:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729395questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729395https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729395<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn"]]>This has no relevance to the question

]]>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:06:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348354questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348354https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41348354<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn"]]>Why did he enter a country with an arrest warrant on his name? I don't understand it

]]>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:29:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41347973questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41347973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41347973<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "The Empathy Punishment"]]>Its still empathy punishment at its core but starting from different incentives.

]]>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:45:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225772questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225772https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225772<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "The Empathy Punishment"]]>Want to lose your faith in humanity? Do any public facing job for long enough and eventually you will be a soulless husk. Happened to my retail friends, happened to my doctor friends, and so on and so forth. As far as doctors are concerned I find the new meta of overworking those young doctors that are passionate to do cost cutting is the most insidious thing. Youre using their passion and empathy as bait to burn them out and make money. Makes me grateful I mostly interact with computers

]]>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:55:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41224383questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41224383https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41224383<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "[dead]"]]>Guess I'm going on keto then

]]>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:05:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40811352questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40811352https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40811352<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday"]]>Oh I wasnt envisioning this when I talked about the situation above. I guess my vision is 20 years from now where you will have LLMs scanning everything and predicting your danger level, if it arises over a certain threshold they just send killbots to deal with you if you dont comply by reporting to your local private prison

]]>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:04:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727064questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727064https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727064<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday"]]>Shame, I would have enjoyed the kawaii look more than the DJI suicide drone look

]]>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:31:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726524questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726524https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726524<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday"]]>The loop is intentional though. You need political will to pass laws like these so you have to create crises for it. But as you say its a self sustaining cycle and the end result will be fully automated repression. The old arguments of "Oh well the policemen have families too" will go away once drones can enforce your dictatorship

]]>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:14:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726414questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726414https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726414<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday"]]>Why is anyone surprised about this? This will be a global phenomenon since LLMs together with ubiquitous surveillance brings down the costs of policing to 0. Just add police drones and you have a foolproof system. There is not a single country in this world whose leaders will decide that "nah we dont need perfect surveillance"

]]>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:08:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726373questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726373https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726373<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "Why am I dreaming I have an exam I didn't study for?"]]>Yeah but it ain't a dream in my case

]]>Thu, 30 May 2024 16:23:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40525525questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40525525https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40525525<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "Jim Simons has died"]]>There are US senators that make millions by using their spouses as intermediaries to buy and sell shares. Insider trading as a crime only exists for those that are not well connected enough

]]>Fri, 10 May 2024 16:37:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320953questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320953https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320953<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "Jim Simons has died"]]>While mister Simons might not be the best example, I sometimes feel that you can easily beat the market if you are well connected and have access to information that can move the markets before anyone else. For example how much know-how do you need to beat the market if you're a US senator? You know before anyone else what's going to happen regarding policy and can plan accordingly. There were rumours about this even regarding Simons' Medallion fund. About how all the talk about math and algorithms was just a red herring to divert from the fact that it was mostly insider knowledge that did the heavy lifting. Alas these rumours were never confirmed as far as I know.

]]>Fri, 10 May 2024 16:08:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320597questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320597https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320597<![CDATA[New comment by questinthrow in "The Rise of the Forever Renter Class"]]>"The pool of people you want to immigrate to your country is not large enough to support that strategy."

Is this true though? In Vancouver apartment prices have increased by 600% between 2000 and 2024. And Canada is still taking in between 500k to 1 million immigrants yearly. https://topqualitycanada.ca/2023/05/15/shift-of-two-decades-...

]]>Tue, 07 May 2024 14:41:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40286092questinthrowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40286092https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40286092